OPS Correctional bargaining team elected

Publication Date

Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 3:30pm

On June 2, the Ontario government presented OPSEU with an offer to “roll over” collective agreements in the OPSEU Unified and Correctional bargaining units of the Ontario Public Service for a four-year term. That offer, summarized here, will be voted on by OPSEU members across the province on June 20, 21, and 22.

As a result of the ratification vote, Unified bargaining team elections scheduled for June 10 were postponed pending results of the vote. If Unified members reject the employer’s offer, bargaining team elections will be rescheduled.

Bargaining team elections for the Correctional bargaining unit went ahead as planned, as the June 2 offer requires a Correctional bargaining team to be in place whether Correctional members reject or accept the employer’s offer.

Under OPSEU policy, the Correctional bargaining team consists of 13 representatives, as follows: four Correctional Officers, one Youth Services Officer, one Probation and Parole Officer, one Probation Officer, one Probation and Parole Officer or Probation Officer, one multi-category member, one fixed-term member, one Corrections Institutional Health Care member, one Corrections Unified (ADM/OAD/OPM/TEC) member, and one member at large.

The following members were elected to the Correctional bargaining team:

Member at large (from any category) and alternates

Following the elections, Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President of OPSEU, offered his thanks to members for their participation in the election process. “I’m very proud of the large number of members who ran for election, and I congratulate all those who were elected,” he said. “Getting chosen is an honour and a vote of confidence in your abilities and integrity.”